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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My middle schooler is at school all day (work), followed by sports or violin (work) and when she gets home and wants to veg out for an hour (play) before dinner, homework (work) and practicing her violin (work) I'm fine with it. The Ask Lisa podcast had an interesting episode lately about the tendency towards "optimizing" our kids like everything else in our life, and how that is not a great practice.

If she didn't get her stuff done I would switch up the schedule but I think the natural schedule is more work before play. [/quote]

+1.  Honestly, my HSer's "work" day rivals mine, and I am a lawyer at a law firm.  One of the things that's important to teach is how to refresh and then get back to work.  [b]Screens are not bad per se but they are not truly refreshing.  That's the issue.[/b][/quote]

This. And this becomes obvious early when kids watch screens and then freak out when you try to turn them off. It's something we talk about explicitly with our kids -- why do you think it's so hard to turn this off? why do you find it harder to switch from screens to another fun activity than to do the reverse?

Screen addiction is real. It is never too early to start teaching kids that you HAVE to limit screen exposure, and that taking care of yourself sometimes means forcing yourself to choose exercise, reading, or rest over staring at a screen, even when the pull is very strong (sometimes especially when it's very strong).[/quote]

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